SEVALAYA SAMARITAN GRAMODHARAN SAMITHY (SSGS) is an NGO that works to improve the living conditions of the underprivileged, especially that of the tribal communities in and around Gudalur, Nilgiris District, South India.

We run a free hospital for targeted beneficiary groups, and support tribal communities by helping provide their children with an education and supplying them with nutritious provisions, clothes, blankets, and materials needed for repairing their huts.

Since 1st April 2021, SGS has been a part of the Sevalaya group of organisations. 

Inspired by Mahakavi Bharathiyar, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda (BGV), Sevalaya (www.sevalaya.org) is a registered charity, functioning since 1988. 

Headquartered in Chennai with presence across Chennai, Thiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Chengelpet, Dharmapuri, Mayiladuthurai, Tenkasi, Thanjavur, Tirunelveli and Nilgiris districts in Tamil Nadu, parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Sevalaya provides free schooling and vocational education for rural children and youth, runs medical centres, homes for destitute children and elderly, organic farms and a gaushala. All services are rendered free of charges without any discrimination.